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We’ve had clients ask us recently — in fact we sometimes ask ourselves — “What’s the difference between a collaboration platform and an Information Workplace platform? Here goes:

Collaboration platform. A unified, integrated electronic platform that supports synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. Collaboration platforms deliver a set of software services that enable individuals to find each other and the information they need, and communicate and work together to achieve common business goals. The primary pieces of a collaboration platform are messaging (email, calendaring, and contacts), team collaboration, real-time collaboration (e.g., instant messaging, conferencing), and Social Computing tools (e.g., wikis,blogs, tagging, social networking, and shared bookmarks). IBM and Microsoft are the leading collaboration platform vendors.

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